New Delhi. 21 June 2024. The third edition of the ‘Warfare and Aerospace Strategy Program (WASP); a strategic educational initiative of the Indian Air Force (IAF) is culminating in a capstone seminar at the Air Force Auditorium, New Delhi on 25 Jun 2024. The theme of the seminar is India’s Strategic Culture and Imperatives for Contemporary National Security’. External Affairs Minister (EAM), Dr S Jaishankar will be gracing the seminar and will be addressing the participants. The event will be attended by the three Services Chiefs, senior military commanders, veterans, distinguished civilian officers from various ministries & Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and Vice-Chancellors from Central and State Universities.
‘WASP’ was started in the year 2022 as part of Professional Military Education (PME) program, with an aim to create a pool of air power practitioners with critical thinking skills, capable of producing well researched, cogent arguments and strategies in various domains of warfare. The program is guided by an external faculty consisting of accomplished practitioner-scholars, with extensive teaching and research experience. The third edition of ‘WASP’ commenced on 16 Mar 24 with a tri-service participation, along with academia for the first time. The participants comprise of fourteen officers from the Indian Air Force, two from the Indian Navy, one from the Indian Army, and a research scholar from a Think Tank. The graduates will be awarded with PG diploma in strategic studies by the Rashtriya Raksha University.
